When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights Act ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night that he has ordered a total halt of bombing of North Vietnam. The television announcement came after an hour-and-a-half White House ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246 in 1965. Since then, organizations doing business with the federal ...

In the final days of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, his Interior Department pulled a fast one on him, renaming ...

For Lyndon Johnson’s 200 million ... s hopes of ever succeeding Johnson on his own. Democrats abandoned the President in droves, forming Dump-L.B.J. movements or rallying behind Gene McCarthy ...

Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio: "One to Mike, One to Mike!" Secret Service Agent Mike Howard, riding behind the President's aqua vehicle in a more sedate station wagon ...

Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, arguing that for all four of them, “at some point, ambition for… The Tet Offensive began in stealth 50 years ago in Vietnam, but it ended up splashed on ...

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines Johnson. From that November afternoon when he made it clear that the torch of continuity ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station. When Johnson became Vice President in 1963, his staff "urged him to sell the station" to avoid potential ...

Dedicated to the 36th president of the United States, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library houses all the expected artifacts – such as presidential papers – as well as several quirkier ...

Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...